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This is good, especially since Arizona has consistently ranked among the bottom states in COVID-19 tests per million residents.

Initially, only those with specific symptoms and at high risk of contracting the virus could get tested.

Now state officials expanded that criteria to anyone who may have been exposed and those who could be infected.

At this point we should assume that all of us have been potentially exposed. Broadening the criteria should make it easier for anyone who wants a COVID-19 test to get one.

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As of April 27, only 66,543 Arizonans have been tested. Testing between 30,000 to 60,000 more over the next three weeks is a good thing. That might give us a better scientific sense of the scope of the pandemic spread in the state to help determine which businesses can start reopening.

Widespread COVID-19 testing should have been top priority. It wasn’t. Ramping up testing now is good but we don’t know what the results of these future tests will reveal. It might be premature to even talk about re-opening businesses.

I get that Arizonans are eager to go back to work, to go out for a bite or simply mingle with each other. Ducey might be inclined to do just that, albeit cautiously. But as the governor, he’s charged with protecting all Arizonans, even from themselves.